Thursday, 22 March 2018

The Man With The Pocket Whirlwind

A certain dude was heavily beaten up at our Lunzu Trading Centre in Blantyre, Malawi, on suspicion that he was moving around with a 'kamvulumvulu' (tornado or whirlwind) in his pocket.

Every time he passed by this particular market, people would notice a whirlwind. And, unaccountably, they would notice some of their money would go missing. It took several such strange occurrences like this for people to put two and two and then six and six together to come to the all perfect conclusion that the whirlwinds were being 'thrown' by the man..

So he needed to be taught a lesson to take his magic elsewhere. Next time they saw him, the irate crowd accosted him and duly proceeded to sort him out...

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